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The Cercal Organ May Provide Singing Tettigoniids a Backup Sensory System for the Detection of Eavesdropping Bats

Conspicuous signals, such as the calling songs of tettigoniids, are intended to attract mates but may also unintentionally attract predators. Among them bats that listen to prey-generated sounds constitute a predation pressure for many acoustically communicating insects as well as frogs. As an adapt...

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Autores principales: Hartbauer, Manfred, Ofner, Elisabeth, Grossauer, Viktoria, Siemers, Björn M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20856887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012698